For the first time in history, the majority of humanity is linked.… As a consequence, our mobile wireless infrastructure can be "reality mined" in order to… monitor our environments, and plan the development of our society.… Reality mining of the "digital breadcrumbs" left behind as we go about our daily lives offers potential for creating remarkable, second-by-second models of group dynamics and reactions over extended periods of time.… In short, we now have the capacity to collect and analyze data about people with a breadth and depth that was previously inconceivable.

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 1362